Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:15:03 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Format a USB flash drive using gpart Message-ID: <20120709145041.Q42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <4FF9E6E8.2070306@cran.org.uk> References: <20120708120028.85CA7106568C@hub.freebsd.org> <20120708233300.J42038@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4FF9E6E8.2070306@cran.org.uk>
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On Sun, 8 Jul 2012 21:00:40 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 08/07/2012 16:06, Ian Smith wrote: > > In general they're not distinct in usage from any other type of disk. > > The more expensive disks of course support TRIM so you'd want to pass -t to > newfs to enable it. Thanks. Next time I blow around AU$455 on a 120GB flashdrive, I'll be glad to be better informed about getting the most out of it :) At least with sysinstall|sade you can set extra newfs options such as -t, and as importantly for me, you can toggle whether or not to newfs particular partition/s, such as leaving say /home alone on an existing partitioning, which didn't seem straightforward with bsdinstall last I tried (admittedly at 9.0-BETA1) but I've not followed later updates. I might take Matthew's suggestion and try the PCBSD 9 installer; I did boot a PCBSD 8 memstick at one stage, and was surprisingly impressed - or I could use freebsd-update instead of sources to go from 7.4 to 9.1 "It's the options that drive ya crazy" -- Silly Symphony C.'83 cheers, Ian
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